Remakes of Alfred Hitchcock classics never fare all that well—even when they aren’t bad. It’s probably because they’re being compared to, you know, Alfred Hitchcock classics. But now there’s a new reason to prematurely dismiss a Hitchcock re-do: it will replace Cary Grant’s effortless charm with whatever it is Gal Gadot is trying to do.
Joining Netflix in this week wrongly insisting that Gal Gadot should play a charismatic crook we need to see again and again, Paramount Pictures has set the Wonder Woman actor to star in a new adaptation of To Catch a Thief. Lethal Weapon (TV series) and Prodigal Son writer Eileen Jones is writing this new take on the story, which sees a reformed cat burglar attempt to clear their name by catching a copycat who’s robbing wealthy tourists in the French Riviera.
1998’s Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche-starring near-shot-for-shot color remake of Psycho is already positioning itself to move up a peg.